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Readings in social theory : the classic tradition to post-modernism - 3rd Edition. - Boston : McGraw-Hill, 2000. - xii, 442 p. ;

pt. 1. The classic tradition. Karl Marx: Alienation, class struggle, and class consciousness --
Émile Durkheim: Anomie and social integration --
Friedrich Nietzsche: Reason and power --
Max Weber: The iron cage --
Georg Simmel: Dialectic of individual and society --
George Herbert Mead: The emergent self --
W.E.B. Du Bois: Double-consciousness and the public intellectual --
Karl Mannheim: Sociology of knowledge and the role of intellectuals. Part 2. Contemporary sociological theory. Functionalism --
Conflict theory --
Exchange theory --
Phenomenological sociology --
Symbolic interaction --
Feminist theory. Part 3. Modernity and post-modernism. Critical theory --
Post-modernism.

This highly regarded anthology of primary readings in sociological theory covers the major theorist and schools from classic to contemporary to modernist and postmodernist in a chronological organization. While designed to be a supplementary reader, its comprehensive coverage and excellent introductions make this book appealing as a main text for professors who want to encourage their students to read and interpret original sources without a traditional main text.

ISBN: 0072300604 (acidfree paper) 9780072300604

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Sociology

Dewey Class. No.: 301.01 / REA